In Photos: The Second World War in Color

Sub-lieutenant Harold Salisbury preparing for a sortie in a Supermarine Seafire Mk of 736 Naval Air Squadron at RNAS Yeovilton in September 1943

Hurricane Mk IIDs, known as ‘flying tin openers’ preparing for takeoff from Gabes, Tunisia, in April 1943

Instructors and pupils of No 20 Service Flying Training School posing with their North American Harvard Mk IIAs at Cranborne, Salisbury, in southern Rhodesia in 1943